1
What's the vibe like in the hallways at Mill Creek Elementary School right now?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
965
Elementary
DISTRICT 722 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON CITY·NCES 010000802133
Mill Creek Elementary School
847 Mill Road, Madison, AL 35758 · (256) 774-4690 · Madison County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL965 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% of Alabama public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
237 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 48 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 142 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 164 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 159 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 144 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 155 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (142) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (155).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
82.2%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
66.7%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.1%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mill Creek Elementary School
Mill Creek Elementary School's state test result (72.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Creek Elementary School this school | 965 | 24.6% | 72.2% |
| Columbia Elementary School Madison | 701 | 25.1% | 70.7% |
| MidTown Elementary School Madison | 1,097 | 28.9% | 70.9% |
| Pike Road Elementary School Pike Road | 888 | 22.5% | 66.1% |
| Madison Elementary School Madison | 603 | 27.4% | 72.0% |
| Heritage Elementary School Madison | 869 | 25.5% | 81.6% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mill Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.2% | #73 of 626 | #8 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #71 of 626 | #8 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #75 of 626 | #10 of 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 965 | #17 of 709 | #3 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #235 of 655 | #15 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #84 of 658 | #15 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.6% | #662 of 696 | #46 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #257 of 262 | #17 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
965
+23 (+2%) vs 2020
+30% since 2010-11, when it was 741
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 965 | 59.3 | 16.3:1 | 25% (237) |
| 2023-24 | 937 | 59.3 | 15.8:1 | 25% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 940 | 60.3 | 15.6:1 | 22% (210) |
| 2020-21 | 942 | 67 | 14.1:1 | 15% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 961 | 56.3 | 17.1:1 | 14% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 893 | 47 | 19.0:1 | 18% (159) |
| 2010-11 | 741 | 47 | 15.8:1 | 20% (149) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mill Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (961 to 965); teachers up 5% (56.3 to 59.3).
About Mill Creek Elementary School
Federal records list Mill Creek Elementary School as an elementary school in Madison, Alabama. The latest federal count shows 965 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 480-student average for elementary schools in Alabama, enrollment here is 101% higher.
Within Madison City, Mill Creek Elementary School is one of 13 schools. The district enrolls 13,046 students.
Mill Creek Elementary School's enrollment is 54% White. Next come 18% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 63% White among all Madison County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Mill Creek Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.3:1, with 59.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Alabama, the typical ratio is 17.0:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Mill Creek Elementary School is 25%. That rate is below the 41% average among public schools in Madison County.
Mill Creek Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 73% of Alabama public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Mill Creek Elementary School would be expected to post about 66.1%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 72.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Madison County, median household income is about $86,499, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Mill Creek Elementary School is among the 89 public schools in Madison County.
The shortest distance from Mill Creek Elementary School to another public school is about 1.2 miles, to James Clemens High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Mill Creek Elementary School is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 942 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 965. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.1:1 to 16.3:1.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
405,718
Census ACS
Median income
$86,499
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
55,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison City
- James Clemens High SchoolHigh · 2,159 students
- Bob Jones High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,103 students
- MidTown Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,097 students
- Discovery Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,054 students
- Journey Middle SchoolMiddle · 903 students
Other schools in Madison
- James Clemens High SchoolHigh · 2,159 students
- Bob Jones High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,103 students
- MidTown Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,097 students
- Discovery Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,054 students
- Journey Middle SchoolMiddle · 903 students
Other Mill Creek Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 11 states are named Mill Creek Elementary. Mill Creek Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 14.
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolLevittown, PA · 974 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolKnoxville, TN · 754 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolWarrington, PA · 729 students
- Mill Creek ElementaryMill Creek, WA · 694 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolNolensville, TN · 625 students
Nearby schools
- James Clemens High School1.2 mi · 2,159
- Madison Elementary School1.2 mi · 603
- MidTown Elementary School1.4 mi · 1,097
- Heritage Elementary School1.5 mi · 869
- Journey Middle School1.7 mi · 903
- Madison City School PreK Center1.8 mi · 252
Frequently asked questions
About Mill Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Mill Creek Elementary School?
Mill Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 965 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mill Creek Elementary School serve?
Mill Creek Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mill Creek Elementary School have?
Mill Creek Elementary School employs 59 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
How diverse is Mill Creek Elementary School?
Mill Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 54% White, 10% Hispanic, 18% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Mill Creek Elementary School?
Mill Creek Elementary School is overseen by Madison City in Madison County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.